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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



PJay IL 1827^ 



]MZ£SC;£3:<£>ANX£SS. 



From " Vagaries in quest of the Wild and Whim- 

 sical:'' By Pierce Shnflon, Gent. 



[In Ihe following: verses is infused a Jitllc of Ihc 

 freshness and simplicity of tin.' olden time.] 

 SONG FOR MAY MORNING. 

 It is May, it is May I 

 And all earth is gay, 

 For at last ciU winlcr i,- .lulU; av.ny : 

 He lingerM awhile on his rloak of 5now. 

 To see the delicate iirimrosi- lilow ; 

 He saw it and made no longer stay — 

 And now it is May, it is liay I 



Liquor at Fires We icarn from the Baltimore I observed that the editor, Mr Giftbrd, had boi 



Chronicle, that a lad, charged with having set of his power of conferring and rfwWi'.dVig 



fire to a board yard, was influenced, as shown by j 17/ i-e;)uto«io« 



testimony, to commit the act, in order to obtain 



the liqnnr wliich is usually distributed among 



those wlio work at engines. What a commentary 



this, on the pernicious practice of lianding about 



liquor. 



U is May, it is i\Tny ! 



.\nd we bless the day 



When we first delightfully so ran say ; 



April had beams amidst her showers. 



Vet bare were her garden?, and cold her b..wir.5 ; 



And her frown would blight, and her smile betray. 



But nov/it is May. it i-! .May. 



It is May, it is Mr.;. : 



And the slenderest ipray 



Holds up a few leaves to the ripening ray, 



And the birds sing fearlessly out on high, 



For there is not a cloud in the calm blue ■' 



And the villagers join the roundelay — 



For oh! it is May, it i? Msy! 



It is May, it is .May ! 

 .And the flowers oi'ty 



The beams which alone ar« more briijht than they ; 

 Yet they .=pring at the touch of the sun^ * 



And opening their sweet eyes one by one, 

 ■ la a language of beauty seem all to say 

 .\nd of perfume — 'tis May, it is May ! 



It is May, it is May 1 . 



And delights that lay 



Chill'd and enchain'd beneath winter sway. 



Break forth again o'er the kindling soul. 



And soften, and soothe it, and bless it whole. 



Oh I thoughts more tender than words convey 



Sigh out— It is May, it is May. 



Very likely : and in the pr<j 

 instance I think he has done it so profusely 1 

 have left none for himself' 



A rich Member of tlie Lower House, but! 

 ceedingly penurious, having one day desca 

 for half an hour, at the Gocoa Tree, on the el 

 lent quality and cheapness of a waistcoat, wd 

 after much bating, he had just bought at a taB 

 shop in the Strand, and v^hich he was o.\liifa8 

 in triumph to the gentlemen present, conclq 

 by praising the high perfection of the Manoh0 

 manufactures, and saying, " Can any thina 

 more reasonable? Can any one conceive 

 they let me have it so cheap.'" — "Very eaS 

 replied Sheridan, raising his head from a n| 

 paper, and heartily tired of being bored by sul 

 subject : " they took you for one of the tradeM 

 sold it to you wholesale. 



The Chinese have a saying, that an unlucky 

 ; word dropped from the tongue cannot be brought 

 ; back again by a coach and si.'c horses. 



•j As two city merchants were conversing togeth- 

 er upon business, a flock of birds passed over 



i their heads ; upon which one of the traders ex- 

 claimed, " How happy those creatures are! they 



Jiave no acceptances to pay." — " You are mistak- 

 en," exclaimed his friend, " they have tbeir hills 

 tc provide for as well as v/e." 



[ Not long since, as a couple were going to be 

 "j married, and had proceeded as far as the cburch- 



1 yard gate, the gentleman stopped his fair com- 

 rade with the following une.xpected address: — 



I " Mary, during oil" courtship, I have told you 



imoS! of my mind, but not all my mind — when we 



I are married I shall insist upon three things." — 



I" What are they ?" asked the astonished lady — 



i " In the first place," says he, " I shall lie alone ; 

 secondly, I shall eat alone; and lastly, 1 shall 

 find fault when there is no occasion; can you 



; submit to these couditious ?" " O yes, Sir, very During the first fifteen days of March, 

 easily," she replied, "for if you .lie alone, I shall bales of Cotton, the product of Florida, were t 

 not ; if you eat alone, I shall eat first ; and as to to Pcnsacola, and sold at 8J and 9 cents 

 your finding fault without occasion, that, I think, 

 may be prevented, for I will take care that you 

 shall never xcant occasion." 



A tunnel from Liverpool to the Cheshire sfa 

 under the liver Mersey, is proposed, a distanc 

 more than a mile. 



A man ai)parcntly deranged, is at the lid 

 of Mr Drake, in Almond, Allegany county, Nl 

 Ho has a rifle and pocket book, on which 

 nnark(ul Simeo7i Elliott. From the papers : 

 possession, it appears that he was formerly 

 Sutton, Mass. 



1 It is stated in a late English paper tliat 6| 

 '• houses are n"bw unoccupied in Glasgow anq 

 cinitv. 



j A person named Owen Moore once left his 



tradesmen somewhat unceremoniously, noon which 

 1 ■ 



occasion a wag wrote — 



Owen Moore has run avvay, 



Owing more than he can pay. 



At a late fire in London, while the eijgiues 

 [were discharging their contents against the front 

 I of a house, .an inscription on it became nearly ob- 

 literated. " By my .sowl,'" exclainned a witty Irish 



The Unbeliever's Cr^eo, selected frnni theirlmnn,. in the crowd, " this is a queer time for a years old he 



hto 



ftki 



Works. I believe that tliore is no God, but that Ijolie." 



I firemen. 



And wlio is joking ?" growled one of the 

 Why, don't you see, honey, how you 



matter is God and God is matter, and that it is no 



matter whether there is any God or no ; I believe j are plaijing upon words," said Pat, 



also that the world was not made : but that t!ie 



world made itself; that it had no beginijing : that 



it will last forever, world without end; 1 believe 



JRoman. 



A very elega»t, full blooded horse, imported wl 

 hope of improving the breed, will stand this srasol 

 the farm of Mr Stephen Williams in NoitbboroiJ 

 County of Worcester. 



ROM \N was purchased in England of the Fal 

 Warwick and his pedigree has been traced in llie I 

 Market Studliook from Cbilders, the swiftest horse !| 

 ever run over New Market course, through e!g:ht | 

 orations of Ihe highest bred hordes and mares in 

 land without a single cross of i.iferior blood. 



, and at 5 years old he won 4 pr3 



At Bow-street a man called Jumper was charg 

 led with robbing a Mr Trotter, of Russcll-streot, i ascan b 

 that a man is a beast; that the soul is the body, 'Sloomsbury. Trotter being too drufik to tvalk 



death ! -Tuuiper was accused of trotting off with bis watch rand 

 the watch unlike its master, tuenl, and the case | f'^j^^, 



and the body is the soul ; .-ind that after 

 there is neither body nor soul ; I believe that 

 there is no religion ; that natural religion is the 

 only religion ; and that all religion is unnatural ; 

 I believe not in Moses ; I believe in the first Phi- 

 losophy ; I believe not the F.vangclists ; I belieTe 

 in Chubb — Tin'al — Voltaire, &c. &c. I believe 



in Lord Bolini;broke ; I believe not St. Paul:' I 



W, .. T L 1- , T,.. , j Qiscussing wneiuer you are a greaier jooi 01 



leve not revelation ; I believe not the Bib e : I u . • • • u -i- s; 



, V • o . T , 1- ■ r, . , ' \ rogue ; what is your own o inion, my bov r Mr 



believe in t>ocrates — I belie-e m Sanconiathan i3l t , • i , , -i 1 \ ^y.' v 



T k„r „■ MI . I u V a.Lumauui.j , gheridan having bowed and smiled at the compli- 

 I believe in Mahomet ; I believe not m Christ : 



stands over. 



Bon JMots if Sheridan. 

 One day, meeting two royal dukes walking up 

 St. James' street, the younger thus mppantly ad- 

 dressed him : •' I say. Sherry, we have just been 

 discussing whether you are a greater fool or 



atlrt has since beat some of the (let lest horsts 

 land over the most celebrated courses. 



His colour a very brig-ht bay — black legs, ii.i 

 t*il — walks and tr ts well — is very good temi 

 high spirited — active — full 15^ hands high and 

 i(ier( d hy judges as handsome and well formed a h( 

 found in the country 

 Marcs liav been sent to him from all the Nc w Fj 

 Stales, as well ns from the remote counties in 

 tate and the neigblioiiring towns, and his colt: 

 some and cnmmAnd high prices. 

 Terms — §90 the season, to be paidijjefore the n 

 are taken away. ' Nortbhorougfh May 4, lu'27; 



' J.Sf A. Pales' Patent Hoe.% 



Constantly for aala^by French & Weld. 31 & Hi? So' 

 .^larket sir. el. sofl^^nts for vending the same. 

 Arril 13 



lastly, I believe in all unbelief.— JVal. Journal. 



Ccivs and Saxon;/ l>ams. 

 -For sale '2 good young milch Cow« and three calve; 

 , , - , , , , • 1 .. I of the Galloway breed, also ]0 line imported ^axm 



ment, took each pf them by the arm, and instant- j^j^^j_i„q„irgoCj5p^-,j^j5ij,g SHURTLKFI ' f h 



It is an old college joke that a youth, on his 

 matriculation, beinp- told he was to subscribe to 



ly replied, " Why, faith, I believe I am between ! 5^,^ near Chelsea bridge. 

 holh." 



Al.: 



Looking over a number of the Quarterly Re- 



."^r^PuMished everv Friday at Three Dollar.^ pt 

 num. payable al the end of the year — but those wh 



the thirty-nine articles, very readily took out his view one day at Brooke's, soon after its first ap- pay within sixty days from the lime of subscrilnng 



purse and asked, " how much 



pearance, he said, in reply to a gentleman who ] entitled to a deduction of Fifty Cents 



